Five leading thinkers on the concept of ‘rights’ in an era of rightlessnessSixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the “inalienable” Rights of...

En esta obra un filósofo se debate con la esperanza de sobrevivir, al mismo tiempo que se ve en la imposibilidad intelectual y espiritual de aceptar alguna versión ingenua de otro mundo que sea el doble o la copia de este. Esa preciso hacer el duelo de...

Classic study of Marx by Japan's leading critical theoristOriginally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been amongst his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the...

Essential essays on key Marxist writers from a leading political thinkerLiterature of Revolution explores the pivotal texts and topics in the Marxist tradition, drawing on the works of Marx, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Lenin, and Althusser. In close dialogue...

A genealogy of fanaticism—unearthing its long history, before it became a tool in the Clash of CivilizationsIt is commonplace to hear fanaticism described as a deviant or extreme variant of an already irrational set of religious beliefs, an assertion...

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good. Rubbed cover, previous owner's name.

A critical biography of René Descartes, whose first principle (“I think therefore I am.”) reshaped modern philosophy.Often called the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes set the intellectual agenda for seventeenth-century philosophy, mathematics,...

Known as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909–43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught...

The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback.One of Jacques Derrida’s most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy...

Los escritos aquí reunidos corresponden al último período de la vida de Walter Benjamin: su exilio en Francia, desde 1933 hasta su suicidio en 1940, cuando no pudo obtener una visa para entrar a España. Ya se trate de los trabajos que su autor redactó en...

An intelligently truthful book that explores the uneven landscape of the human intellect.An accessible introduction to philosophy, this book narrows the gap between the general reader and intellectual inquiry. Its points are illustrated with concrete...

In Fly-Fishing, Christopher Schaberg ponders his lifetime pursuit of the widely mythologized art of fly-fishing. From the Michigan lakeshore where he learned to fish to casting flies in a New Orleans bayou, Schaberg sketches landscapes and fish habitats...

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving underground queer and trans rave scene. Techno, first and always a Black music, invites fresh sonic...

Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to the Declaration, the rights of man are held to be...

Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for transdisciplinary thinking that can push back against the narrowness of the humanities today.Richard Halpern...

The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is among the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences of the past half-century. In this book, originally published in 2003, she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it...

The modern notion of tolerance―the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good―emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance...